By Helmut Ritgen
ISBN-10: 0921991282
ISBN-13: 9780921991281
Not easy hide, small structure (6"x9"), 329 pages, one hundred ten photos, 30 maps and diagrams. Colonel Ritgen is either a wrestle veteran of WW2 and a famous ecu battlefield historian. He relates his own reports and people of the elite Panzer Lehr department in Normandy, Falaise, the retreat via France and the battles at the West Wall. additionally, the writer sums up the entire strategic photo of the conflict at the Western entrance in 1944 from the German point of view. a desirable account from the German point of view.
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Nevertheless, it merely confirmed the existing situation that had already been in effect since the day before. The division was supposed to defend its achieved line: les Hauts Vents-St. Pierre (south) Tilly (north)-Yerrieres (south)-la Senandiere (north). On the right was the 901st Panzergrenadier Lehr Regiment; in the center was the 130th Armored Engineer Battalion and the 902nd Panzergrenadier Lehr Regiment under the command of Oberst Gerhardt, CO Pz Lehr Rgt. On the left ALA was securing the division's left flank on the Laurette stream, from the source to la belle Epine.
Italy defected. My former commander, von Hünersdorff, now Generalmajor, was killed at the head of his 6th Panzer Division near Kursk. Even here we frequently had to interrupt training to clear bombing damage in Hamburg and Hannover. A few days before Christmas we unexpectedly received the order to raise the Panzer Lehr Division from the Lehr (school) units of all Panzertruppen Schools. For the readers of today a short review may be appropriate as to how Germany's Panzertruppen came into being since the Great War, and how they developed into their final wartime product, the Panzer Lehr Division.
The prinz turned over the command of the battalion to me for the duration of his trip home. The long-expected invasion began on 6 June! " Although I doubted the order, I had to get the battalion ready to march. Reconnaissance aircraft and fighters circled high above us, looking for targets. Our uncertainty lasted all day, we had to wait. 4. June 44 - The Landing Breaking Through the Atlantic Wall Hitler's reference in his Directive No. 51, that the "decisive land battle will be fought in the west", was fascinating, but the German combat formations in France, in the west, remained Hitler's stepchildren, despite the enormous Allied buildup in England.
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